Counting Concurrent Jobs

Jerry Alexander

Each row in this spreadsheet is a "Job". I'm trying to count (project the count by month) concurrent "Active" jobs (rows) based on a start and finish date of the job.

I created two columns (per 12 months) to set the criteria for each months calculation. If the monthly criteria falls between the start and finish dates of the job/row, the cell would be "active", if not, the cell would be blank. Then I could just count the "Active cells by month to project my monthly concurrent active jobs for the year.

I understand that Smartsheet doesn't have a "Between" formula, but does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

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@Andrée Starå

Andrée Starå

Hi @Jerry Alexander

Try something like this.

=IF(AND(Start@row >= [Oct Start]@row, Start@row <= [Oct End]@row), 1, 
IF(AND(Finish@row >= [Oct End]@row, Finish@row <= [Oct End]@row), 1, 
IF(AND(Start@row <= [Oct End]@row, Finish@row >= [Oct Start]@row), 1)))

Did that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå

Hi @Jerry Alexander

Try something like this.

=IF(AND(Start@row >= [Oct Start]@row, Start@row <= [Oct End]@row), 1, 
IF(AND(Finish@row >= [Oct End]@row, Finish@row <= [Oct End]@row), 1, 
IF(AND(Start@row <= [Oct End]@row, Finish@row >= [Oct Start]@row), 1)))

Did that work?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic weekend!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

✅Did my post(s) help or answer your question or solve your problem? Please support the Community by marking it Insightful/Vote Up or/and as the accepted answer. It will make it easier for others to find a solution or help to answer!

Andrée Starå

@Jerry Alexander

I set the formula to be 1 if true, so you could have a checkbox column instead, but you can, of course, modify it to whatever you'd like.

Jerry Alexander

You're Awesome! Thanks so much for your help. You're making me look good at my office. They will think I'm a genius! (I'll give you a little credit) :)

Andrée Starå

@Jerry Alexander

Haha! 🤣

You're more than welcome!